Job 10:21

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the dee.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:22
    87%

    22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 16:22
    80%

    22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

    12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 7:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 38:19
    75%

    19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Lam 3:6
    74%

    6He hath set me in dark pces, as they that be dead of old.

  • Job 23:8
    73%

    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • Ps 139:11
    73%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Job 30:23
    73%

    23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 24:17
    72%

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Job 7:21
    72%

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Job 15:22
    72%

    22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Ps 39:13
    72%

    13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 34:22
    71%

    22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Job 33:30
    71%

    30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

  • Job 3:9
    71%

    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 38:17
    71%

    17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • Job 18:18
    71%

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 13:21
    71%

    21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

  • Job 10:1
    70%

    1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.